Integrity really does go a long way.
The Better Business Bureau recently awarded five local
students with scholarships for simply acting with integrity.
Joining us live in studio right now is Better Business Bureau,
Director of entrepreneurial programming, Samantha
Scholl and first place scholarship winner, Olivia. No girls. Thank you, ladies.
Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you.
Um Samantha, I want to first talk to you about,
I want you to explain to people this whole the Better Business Bureau.
Why did you even, how did you come to the decision of,
let's make something to teach kids about, talk about the importance of ethics?
Uh Well, that's a great question. So the BBB ethics is
we're champions for ethics and everything that
we do from our consumers to business ethics
to students,
employees and high school students specifically
are faced with ethical decisions that could
change the course of their entire lives.
And so those decisions are incredibly important.
So we created the scholarship and we've been awarding scholarships to
students um for ethics for over 20 years in San Diego.
Yes. Yes.
So recently just uh five students,
Olivia being the the top place winner So we created this,
these ethical scholarships um with in mind
for students to be able to share about a personal moral dilemma that they have faced.
And that's, that's incredible.
And so these are our, our future workforce, these students.
So, because I mean, look, we're,
we want to be in an environment with ethical businesses.
Right. Absolutely. So that's what you're trying to raise.
Can you tell people how the, about the selection process for these winners?
Yeah, absolutely. So the students are asked to write a 500 word essay
uh based off of a personal experience of some
type of an ethical dilemma that they have faced
and they share that experience with us and they have, we have a,
a team of folks that grade the essays based on five different sets of rubric.
And yeah, we awarded five in San Diego recently
and Olivia got first place Olivia. Tell people about your essay.
What was the ethical dilemma that you wrote about? So I wrote about um
working in the restaurant industry and then just
particularly one dinner shift that I was working.
And when a coworker called in to ask me to clock in for him
and it was kind of just my whole decision making process
and which I ended up not clocking in for him.
And what I learned from that as well. And so what did you, what made you decide?
You even told me? I wasn't sure that I was going to even write an essay about this.
Yeah.
So when I thought about writing about an ethical
dilemma I face or making an ethical decision,
I really thought it had to be something, you know, life changing,
something really big.
But then I realized like looking at all of
the past winners and thinking about my own life,
everyone's affected by ethical decisions that you make,
that don't necessarily have to change your life.
But just making small choices can really change who you are and what you value.
So I decided to write about one of mine when you looked at it.
Do you realize you're probably making ethical decisions on the daily? Right? Yeah.
Ok. So what are you planning on doing with this scholarship money?
What's next for you?
Um So right now I'm a senior in high school,
so I'm working on my college ads at what high school a
MESA
and then I'm just thinking about when college applications where I wanna go.
So scholarship is definitely gonna be used towards that.
You have already something in mind for what you wanna study. Um
Not super, super specific,
but I am thinking about going into like the technology and business.
That's great. We need lots of women, women in technology and business. Olivia.
Thank you so much.
If people want to know about when do they have to
apply next year is when you start doing that application again?
Yes, absolutely.
Um Applications will probably be coming up shortly um in,
in the beginning of next year.
Ok.
We'll put a link to the Better Business
Bureau with all that information on our website
at CBS A dot com girls. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. Thank you.
All right, we'll be right back.